How do "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost, compare in the use of imagery to convey meaningI...

In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the speaker
stops apparently to simply to revel in the beauty of the snowy blanket on trees and
fields. However, because the speaker mentions the "frozen lake," there is an indication
that the poem may not be merely an aesthetic experience of nature.  The auditory image
of the "harness bells" which recall the speaker to reality is overshadowed by the
silence:  the "sound's the sweep" suggests in its allitertion the sound of the wind.  In
the last stanza, the idea of the alluring quality of nature is present in this poem as
it is in "The Road Not Taken"; the speaker is tempted to go deeper into the woods, but
his obligations--"miles to go before I sleep" prevent him from doing
so.

Like the speaker in "The Road Not Taken," this speaker
avoids the lure of the more tempting choice, a choice that is not dark as in the other
poem, "but just as fair."  In fact, the paths are in "a yellow wood," where it is sunny,
rather than frozen and dark.  But, perhaps, because the choice is between two paths that
so similar, or because he does not have other obligations, the speaker of "The Road Not
Taken" is ambivalent about which to choose, so ambivalent that he
is

...telling
this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages
hence

whereas the speaker of
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" simply reminds himself of his obligations:  "I
have miles to go before I sleep."